This week couldn’t have been more contrasting if it tried. The first 3 days was constant rain, high winds with frequent gusts up to or at 150 km/h, hail coming in sideways and fast, and some thunder and lightning thrown in for good measure. Needless to say, no gardening was done then at all. And while 150 km/h seems like a lot, it didn’t cause … Continue reading A week of two halves.
It is always questionable as to when to start the growing season. But today is as good a time as any. Today is the shortest day and the thing to do on the shortest day is to plant onions. I know it is an old wives’ tale to be taken with a grain of salt as the planting window is wide open from April to … Continue reading Is this the start of something wonderful?
The first seeds of the season have been sown, with love and care and great expectation. But then disaster struck. Actually, it isn’t as bad as that, but it is extremely frustrating. I have picked up some kind of cold or lurgy that has left me unable to watch over my buried seeds with the unnecessary frequency I normally do. Those first seeds of the … Continue reading Seeds and bugs
I always find this a strange turn of seasons. Especially because the transition is so vague. Spring is cut and dried. We are so over winter that we are happy to declare the 1st of September the first day of spring no matter how freezing and miserable it is. It is spring people and we just need to wrap up warm and get on with … Continue reading Well autumn aye?!
